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Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of October 7th, 2024
  • Started a campaign in XCOM 2, using the Long War of the Chosen mod, along with Mod Jam. XCOM is one of those games I've revisited regularly over the years, and mods help keep it fresh. Found out the person who made Mod Jam is taking a break and someone else made a replacement already - TedJam. Maybe I'll play another campaign after this one using TedJam instead.

  • 63% of Gen Z Would Rather Play Video Games Than Watch a Movie — GamerBlurb
  • Oh? Would getting shot in the head protesing in Israel be more productive? I donno about you, but I work my ass off and would love to take some time at the end of the day with a game or movie. Unfortunately, I'm not rich enough to stop a genocide half a world away.

  • Autopsy of Turkish-American activist shows she was killed by sniper’s bullet to the head: Nablus governor
  • So Israel deployed snipers using lethal ammunition to target protesters with excessive force. In this case, a US citizen. For some reason, this event reminds me of the Boston Massacre. Protesting the slaughter means you get slaughtered too.

    I'm guessing we've abandoned all pretext of a red line that Israel can cross and they're free to do whatever, and the whole situation just feels like we've decided that we're on the side of evil because we keep supporting this. Might as well start putting skulls on our caps.

  • What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't?
  • I used to work in HVAC. I remember we had a small cold room that was struggling to maintain temperature, as in, design was supposed to be 0°F but it couldn't get below 36°F. There was a large hole in the box that was undoubtedly the cause of the problem, so I asked the installer how they accounted for that. "Oh, I doubled the infiltration value." When I tried calculating the actual losses it was way, way higher than the infiltration value. Like, the room needed someting like 3-4 times its total refrigeration capacity to reach target with a giant fucking hole in the box.

    No idea who thought putting a giant hole in the box was a good idea.

  • Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 10 Part 4
  • Myne's copy and paste spell demonstrates how it is perfect for this competition.

    Myne kept Ferdinand's mana colors for quite a while after being dyed. I wonder if she'll keep the Goddess's mana colors now? She no longer has mana clumps, but maybe? Does that mean she'll appear to be more divine to others?

  • Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 10 Part 2
  • I think it was "the [library's] tools would [eliminate] anyone who entered the library through illicit means." But walking in through the front or back door is fine as long as you don't force your way in. I think you're entirely correct about the masters, library personnel, and royalty, but I get the impression that royal branch families do not get special access. They got in because of Horenisia's feystone, which let them into the dormatory, which appears to be a weakness. Solange maybe let them in the rest of the way after the shumils informed her of Hortensia's arrival? They did threaten her.

    The "illicit means" thing probably also applies to the masters, royalty, etc., though, as the shumils did consider Rosemyne a threat when she tried to force her way into the door that holds the copy of the G book.

  • Wait until they get to pineapples...
  • Sounding is measuring the depth of something. Sounding rods used to be a stick you put into a tank to identify how deep the liquid was in the tank, sometimes with marks on the rod. Maybe I'm just old.